Guard-rail mounting.



B. B. BETTS.

GUARD RAIL MOUNTING.

FILED DEc.21 19 1,155,992. Patented 001;.5, 1915.

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GUARD RAIL MOUNTING.

APPLICATLQN HLED nc.21,1914.

1,155,992. Patented oat. 5,1915.

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GUARD-milt MOUNTING.

i Specification of Letters Patent.

'Patente-u oet. 5, i915.

Application filed December 21, 1914. Serial No. 878,298.

structure is formed by rolling or pressing comprising a seat for a ruiming rail, a seat for a guard rail, in a plane above and partially overlying the running rail seat, an element forming recesses to receive the bases of the two rails and a brace extending to a point where it will engage beneath the ball of the running rail, flanges or shoulders on said seats in opposition to said recesses, anticreeping devices on the bottom of the mounting and through which mounting spike openings are formed for holding the rails to the mounting and the mounting to the ties or sleepers.

The object of my invention is to construct a guard rail mounting having the characteristics just recited, by rolling or pressing in order to produce a mounting of material capable of withstanding the strains it is subjected to in use and at a minimum of cost.

With the above object in view, my invention consists in the novel Adetails of arrangement and construction of the parts of the mounting as will be fully set forth in my specification, specifically pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l shows in plan a guard rail mounting embodying my improvements having two rails shown thereon, as in use; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the mounting as shown in Fig. 1, the two rails being shown in section; Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the mounting as formed by rollers; Fig. 4 is an edge view of the mounting, on a reduced scale, as formed by rollers; Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing a second step in the forming of the mounting; and Fig. 6 is a view similar to Figs. 4 and 5, showing the nal forming.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings: 10 designates that portion of the mounting whose upper surface constitutes the seat for the running rail 11,

left, respectively of these two seats are the rail base shoulders 14 and 15.

'Ihe guard rail seat is in a plane above thel running rail seat and partially overlaps the same, so that standard, unaltered rails may be employed. For example, I may use a standard one hundred pound running rail and an eighty pound guard rail andthe elevation and lateral positioning of the guard rail seat relative to the running rail seat properly spaces the ball of the guard rail laterally from the ball ofthe running rail.

In order to simply save material, I zform in the mounting beneath the .guard rail seat, a depression 16, which divides the mounting and forms the vtwo tie engaging surfaces 17 and 18. In order to prevent creeping of the mounting over the tie, I provide the ribs 19.

As shown in Figs. 3 and 4,v the mounting is first formed by rolling or pressing from a single ingot with a web 20 arising from the guard rail seat 10. rIhis web is then bent to parallel the rail seats (as shown in Fig. 5), to form the recess 21 which receives the base of the running rail and to extend the guard rail seat 12 over the running rail seat. The web 20 is then bent backwardly over itself to form the recess 22 which receives the base of the guard rail. The web is then reversely bent from the recess 22 to form a brace 23 extending upwardly and laterally so that its end will lie beneath the ball of the running rail.

In order to facilitate-the bending of the web from its vertical position to the horizontal, I cause to be formed in its side near its base a groove 24 (see Fig. 4).

The salient feature of this guard rail mounting is its being made, with the characteristics described, by rolling or pressing from an ingot.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A guard rail mounting provided with "Fidi a a running rail seat, a flange therefor, a

guard rail seat and a flange therefor, said seats occupying dierent elevations and overlapping each other, and a brace interposed between said seats adapted to lie beneath the ball of the running rail, all rolled or pressed. fram a single piece of material@ 2. A guard rail mounting provided with a running rail seat, a shoulder therefor, a guard rail seat and a shoulder therefor, said respective seats occupying different elevations and overlapping each other, thus permitting the use of a standard unaltered running rail and a guard rail, there being spike openings formed adjacent the shoulder on the running' rail seat and on the guard rail seat, and a' brace interposed hetWeen said seats and projecting upwardly therefrom at an angle and adapted to seat beneath the ball of the running rail, said mounting all rolled or pressed from a single piece of material.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my naine to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMN B. BETTS. litnesses:

EDWARD E. LONGAN, E. L. VALLACE.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for fwe cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

